Sociology: Death & Dying

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photo...

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edi...

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relat...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connect...

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendabl...

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to bet...

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to sh...

Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data ...

Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how i...

From the moment we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die...

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twent...

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twent...

A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancie...

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.Voluntary or involuntary? asked the nurse ...